单词 | to talk ear off |
释义 | > as lemmasto talk (someone's) ear off 10. Colloquial phrases. to talk the hind leg off a donkey (horse, etc.), applied to one who: (a) talks with unflagging and wearying persistence, or: (b) is said to have the power to persuade another by eloquent or charming speech; (also) to talk the bark off a tree (U.S.); to talk (someone's) ear off: to talk incessantly or until one is tired of listening (U.S.). ΚΠ 1808 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. XIII. ii. 47 The old vulgar hyperbole of ‘talking a horse's hind leg off’..will find its verification in the American Congress. 1838 ‘L. Redivivus’ Paradise Lost 84 By George, you'd talk a dog's hind leg off. 1861 Temple Bar 1 414 One has heard of persons who could ‘talk a donkey's hind leg off’. 1879 A. Trollope John Caldigate III. ix. 122 She'd talk the hind-legs off a dog, as we used to say out there [i.e. in Australia]. 1891 Outing (U.S. ed.) Nov. 137/1 The sort of cover that tempts one to halt and ‘talk the bark off a tree’. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxxviii. 459 ‘Doesn't she look like Rubens' second wife?’ cried Athelny. ‘Wouldn't she look splendid in a seventeenth-century costume? That's the sort of wife to marry, my boy. Look at her.’ ‘I believe you'd talk the hind leg off a donkey, Athelny,’ she answered calmly. 1935 G. Lorimer & S. Lorimer Heart Specialist i. 9 An American will talk your ear off about his sport with a little encouragement. 1942 G. H. D. Cole & M. Cole Toper's End iv. ix. 138 You can talk the 'ind leg off any donkey. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 10 Apr. 9/5 Heck! I could talk your ear off. But let me just say that in all my 40 years of organizing and escorting tours, I haven't found a better one than this one. < as lemmas |
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